Recommendation 13

The Committee therefore calls on the Scottish Government, in responding to this report, to set out what further action it is taking or plans to take to gather further data about the practical impact and any specific benefits for pathways and services of allowing open referrals, to learn appropriate lessons from experience of open referrals on the ground and to explore how open referrals can be made more widely available across Scotland in a way that allays workforce fears that this will result in services being overwhelmed.